I am in Victoria, and will be for another day.
Butchart Gardens costs $23/person in the high season. It may be worth it. I shall say it is the most impressive garden I have ever experienced. There's not much more to discuss about it, except that we took two hours to tour it in a reasonably leisurely fashion. It is an excellent place to stop and smell the roses. Photos should be forthcoming on Saturday.
We saw Drea, and I tried to encourage her to resume blogging.
Me (this is paraphrased), talking to Beau Hartshorne about his day job, the web-based image editor Snipshot:
"So, I guess you guys benefit from the sort of revision and versioning advantages that Paul Graham talks about?"
"Yes. So you must know that Paul Graham invested in our company? He's a really nice guy, by the way."
"Ninety percent of everything is crud" - Sturgeon's Revelation
With that principle in mind, I want to avoid burying all the things we hold dear (web 2.0, flickr, podcasting, bloggery, Darren Barefoot) just because 90% of them suck. If the suck rate was only 90%, we'd be doing great!
I want to get at the inherent flaws that are causing some of this stuff to achieve 3-5 nines of suck. Also, I should stop making up statistics.
Nerd fun: playing Mario Kart on some DSen.
Yeah, we're productive.
Yay! I plan to use my share of the returned tax dollars to buy a video game.
Well, more seriously, Darren Barefoot asked a serious question: he was wondering how Conservatives (which, rightly or wrongly, he seems to be imagining as opponents of the CBC in general.
Well, I guess I'll do: pretty definitively conservative (both upper- and lowercase "C"), and I don't think much of the CBC.
Vuvuc the Cat, on its window sill
Vuvuc began as a star-crossed Scrabble play, met us as a cat in the middle of its life, and died today after a sudden illness.
When we were both avidly playing Scrabble, The Lovely One, in a desperate end-of-rack fit, played "VUVUC" on the board and said if I challenged it, she'd use it as the name of our firstborn.
I only expected to do one of these things during my vacation...
Morning: have beloved cat put down, because it is suffering acutely and in manifold ways from what was most likely a burst tumor. The cat was pretty much normal-looking on Sunday. Here's an irony: the cat has been an insulin-dependent diabetic for the last three years or so, and its blood-sugar level was about the only number in its blood work that wasn't completely screwed up.
Afternoon: eat at A&W. Field offer from majorish motion picture to use the house as a shooting location.
We interrupt our usual intermittent spurts of original content to link to something for you. It's an interview with "Witesock," a sports-sock collector.
Now that's super. This guy has a wildly specialized collection of "several hundred" socks. He's interviewed on the wonderfully obsessive Uni Watch blog. But that's not the fun part...
UW: Now, do you wear these socks just for, y’know, walking around?WS: I do. I wear them pretty much all the time.
I'm going to Barcamp Vancouver next weekend, and I need some advice on my presentation, if anyone cares to give it. The work in progress is exposed below.
"Ninety percent of everything is crud" - Sturgeon's Revelation
